Saturday, 14 April 2018

The Day of the Sun in London

Andy Brooks remembers Kim Il Sung

By New Worker
Correspondent

Comrades
honoured the life-time achievements of Kim Il Sung at a Korean Friendship
Association (KFA) meeting in central London last weekend. Kim Il Sung founded
the communist movement that liberated the country from Japanese colonialism,
defeated the might of US-led imperialism in the Korean War and led the drive to
build the modern, socialist republic that exists today in the north of the
divided peninsula.

Kim Il Sung was born on 15th April 1912
and his birthday has long been celebrated as the Day of the Sun by everyone who
stands by the DPRK. The Day of the Sun is the biggest public holiday of the
year in Democratic Korea and last weekend solidarity activists gathered at a hall in Kings Cross to join the Korean masses in honouring the immense
contribution that Kim Il Sung made to the world communist movement throughout
his long life.

The meeting was opened by
KFA Chair Dermot Hudson who welcomed the other speakers that included diplomats
from the DPRK embassy and New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks. Dermot spoke
about Kim Il Sung’s life of struggle in the service of the people while Stoke
KFA activist Shaun Pickford focused on the work of Korea’s militant trade
unions. Kim Song Gi from the DPRK embassy said Kim Il Sung was a true people's
leader and always at one with the people while Andy Brooks spoke at length
about his meeting with President Kim Il Sung in 1990 and shared many
interesting anecdotes about the great leader of the Korean Revolution.